Word: appealingness
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $25). This handsome edition preserves every word of the original; only Roberto Innocenti's pictures are new. And what appealing images they are: the materializing ghost of Marley; the affable Cratchits; Scrooge flying over the rooftops of London; and above all...
The most appealing argument the department could make for the relative strength of its British scholarship is that it is impossible to understand the American literary tradition without first understanding its British precursor. This assertion is legitimate, but it does not excuse the weakness of the American curriculum here. An...
Those who want Americans to present a spurious unified voice in the Gulf crisis are suggesting that we handcuff our wrists to the rear-view mirror. This strategy may sound appealing until we realize that the slightest miscalculation of Saddam's aims could mean that we would have to make...
The core of the decision was that North's constitutional shield against forced self-incrimination may have been violated. North had testified at the congressional hearings under a grant of partial immunity, meaning Walsh could not use information from North's public testimony in the criminal case unless he had...
But oil is not the only or even main cause for war, whatever the cynics say. Would the U.S. have fought to conquer the Middle Eastern oil fields if Saddam Hussein had peacefully persuaded Kuwait, Saudi Arabia et al. to restrict production enough to shoot the price up to $40...